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Gillian Coutts Books

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Jacqueline Carter is a partner and director at Potential Project North America, and Gillian Coutts leads Potential Project Australia.

Known for: One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness

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One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness

One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness

leadership·10 min read

This book introduces practical mindfulness techniques designed for busy professionals. It provides tools to improve focus, clarity, and emotional balance, helping readers manage distractions and stress to enhance productivity and leadership effectiveness.

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Understanding the Distracted Mind

We begin with the reality that every modern professional faces—a mind continually bombarded by information. Our research and workshops reveal that most people spend nearly half their mental time not in the present moment. This constant drift has emotional and financial costs. Distraction leads to in...

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The ‘One Second Ahead’ Principle

At the heart of our approach is one deceptively simple idea: being one second ahead of your mind. That one second is the space of awareness between stimulus and response. It is where choice lives. Viktor Frankl famously wrote about this space, and we’ve found that in professional life, it determines...

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About Gillian Coutts

Jacqueline Carter is a partner and director at Potential Project North America, and Gillian Coutts leads Potential Project Australia.

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